y aid
the movement now in progress for the general recognition and
conception of Equal Rights to Woman.

Society is clearly unjust to woman in according her but four to
eight dollars per month for labor equally repugnant with, and
more protracted than that of men of equal intelligence and
relative efficiency, whose services command from ten to twenty
dollars per month. If, then, the friends of Woman's Rights could
set the world an example of paying for female service, not the
lowest pittance which stern Necessity may compel the defenceless
to accept, but as approximately fair and liberal compensation for
the work actually done, as determined by a careful comparison
with the recompense of other labor, I believe they would give
their cause an impulse which could not be permanently resisted.

With profound esteem, yours,
HORACE GREELEY.

MRS. PAULINA W. DAVIS, Providence, R. I.

Mr. Greeley's letter bore two remarkable aspects. First, he recognized
the poverty of woman as closely connected with her degradation. One
of the brightest anti-slavery orators was at that time in the habit of
saying, "It is not the press, nor the pulpit, which rules the country,
but the counting-room"; proving his assertion by showing the greater
power of commerce and money, than of intellect and morality. So Mr.
Greeley saw the purse to be woman's first need; that she must control
money in order to help herself to freedom.

Second, ignoring woman's pauperized condition just admitted, he
suggested that women engaged in this reform should pay those employed
in the household larger wages than was customary, although these very
women were dependent upon others for their shelter, food, and clothes;
so impossible is it for a governing class to understand the
helplessness of dependents, and to fully comprehend the disabilities
of a subject class.

The declaration of sentiments[107] adopted at the Westchester
Convention was read by Martha C. Wright, and commented upon as follows
by

CLARINA HOWARD NICHOLS: There _is_ no limit to personal
responsibility. Our duties are as wide as the world, and as
far-reaching as the bounds of human endeavor. Woman and man must
act together; she, _his_ helper. She has no sphere peculiar to
herself, because she could not then be his helper. It